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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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At the Okanagan Cariboo Trail Association's annual convention in Kamloops, B.C., President John Killian announced efforts to extend Highway 97 into a 12,000-mile Pan-American highway from Alaska to South America, starting with Mexico.
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. (AP) - President John Killian of the Okanagan Cariboo Trail Assn. said Friday the group is working for extension of Highway 97 into a 12,000-mile Pan-American highway from the "top of North America to the foot of South America."
Killian told a press conference at the opening of the annual convention here that the highway now covers 3,000 miles from Weed, Cal., to Fairbanks, Alaska. It will be extended to Nome.
First project for the association is extension of the highway into Mexico and later through Central America and South America.
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Kamloops, B.C.
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President John Killian of the Okanagan Cariboo Trail Assn. said the group is working for extension of Highway 97 into a 12,000-mile Pan-American highway from the top of North America to the foot of South America. The highway now covers 3,000 miles from Weed, Cal., to Fairbanks, Alaska, and will be extended to Nome. First project is extension into Mexico and later through Central America and South America.